2005，Over The Rhine带来了自前年的Ohio后的新专辑，专辑以吉它，贝斯，钢琴为首要演奏乐器，伴随着鼓点，电吉它，大提琴，稀疏的喇叭声以及风琴，编织出安静的，一流的音乐……作为演唱家的Karin Bergquist也真正地自成流派了，她的声音总那么的敏感精细，但她能把最大限度的情感意图在演唱歌曲的时候强烈反映出来……引用灰尘新杂志的话来说，就是“不曾娇媚却足够独特诱惑另类的妖娆”“一个有着说不出性感声线的唱歌女人和一个懂得运用这声音感人至极的写歌男人。”

Even those allergic to musicals may be won over by Once, a tender-hearted Irish romance with songs by Czech Republic–born Markéta Irglová and Frames frontman Glen Hansard. (The film's director, John Carney, actually used to play bass in the group.) The trick here is that Irglová and Hansard also play the leads; because their characters are shown busking, writing music, or rehearsing, the songs are smoothly integrated in the film. The overall acoustic mood won't surprise fans of the Frames--some tracks ("Say It to Me," "When Your Mind's Made Up") have even popped up on the band's albums, though the arrangements are more pared-down here, befitting the scruffy, street-musician setting. Being the lesser-known entity, Irglová feels like a revelation; she sounds a bit like a folkie Björk on "If You Want Me," and her song "The Hill" is downright heartbreaking. Irglová and Hansard had already made the 2006 album The Swell Seasontogether, so their collaboration here feels really organic--they sound particularly good together on the title track, for instance. Now that's the kind of magic you want from musicals. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

她的歌．她的人．她的表演，给了许多人温暖和力量
有些人，注定离不开音乐,他们因为音乐而受苦，却也因为音乐而快乐，而发光发热…

" I sort of wanted to get back to that time when I played music for nothing."
我想这就是Rosie Thomas这张新专辑诞生的原因，远离正常的唱片生产流程，没有studio，没有producer，没有deadline，甚至乾脆跳过了厂牌发行这一块，直接把这张专辑放在网上贩售，这一次Rosie Thomas随性得很彻底。
这张专辑里的曲子是Rosie Thomas与她的好友Sufjan Steven和Dension Witmer共同在Sufjan位于纽约的公寓里录制的，开始时他们甚至没有打算做出一张专辑，只是几个同是音乐人的好友聚在一起写歌唱歌而已，好比古时文人相见总要吟诗作对，把酒言欢一般自然，他们所有的设备也只是几个在客厅、卧室、厨房里随意安置的麦克风而已。许多歌曲是Rosie Thomas一写出来后，其他两人立即配上其余的部分，在Rosie自己忘记之前录制下来的，没有雕琢的成分，即兴的味道颇浓，当然，不变的还是Rosie Thomas一贯的清新温暖的民谣风格.
不能说这张专辑有多特别或者好听，我只能说这张里的Rosie Thomas非常真诚，一如成名之前那般默默无闻地唱着让自己快乐的歌。也许对她的事业来说，这不会是一张重要的专辑，但也许仅仅是想到这个亲切而温暖的名字，These Friends of Mine，也能让听众和歌者互相会心一笑，我想这就是Rosie Thomas所希望的，毕竟她说" I just want to entertain people."?---Yes, I think you do. (以上转自”就是音乐“)
Rosie Thomas has a delicate, weird little voice and it's never really been the forefront of her music until now. The preteen Joni Mitchell/ choirgirl strains of her vocal tones are something to be played up, not down; thankfully she's finally realized that on her Nettwerk debut and fourth solo album. The album also includes studio patter tacked onto the beginning or ending of the songs, awesome little snippets of Rosie's famous comedic wit. Such material works in the album's favor, grounding the material by showing that Thomas is not some precious freak-folker. It also gives a glimpse of her live performances, where Rosie sometimes performs as a neurotic woman in a neck brace hopelessly in love with Leo DiCaprio named Sheila (really). The record's title likely refers to the batch of famous friends who act as accompanying musicians throughout. Thomas's core of musical compatriots in vaguely Christian dreamy emo folk-rock is here expanded from Pacific Northwesterners Damien Jurado, David Bazan, and Jeremy Enigk to include New Yorker Sufjan Stevens. Sufjan and Rosie duet beautifully and breathlessly on their cover of R.E.M.'s "The One I Love." This sparse and Beatle-length album (ten songs, just over half an hour) is her strongest by far. Huzzah!